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Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates (1851)

Richard Bowden-Smith

Item ID:59706

Category: History, Local History, English and American Literature

€695.00

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, Representing Artificial Flies, etc. London: John van Voorst., 1851. First and only edition. Pp vii, 74, [1, + catalogue]; fontispiece plate and five plates at rear (all but one hand-coloured). Rebound in antiquarian style quarter calf, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. Light age-toning to contents otherwise a very good copy. A scarce and attractive item.The author treats of salmon fishing (in Connemara), and of fishing for pike, trout and grayling. In this book, he was also the first to write extensively about the excellent sea angling to be had off the Connemara coast.